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Tainá Rocha

I am a researcher working on patterns of biodiversity distribution, focusing on the impacts of global change (climate change and land-use and land-cover change). My recent interests and researches comprise: 1. Analysis of climate data and land use and land cover data under different scenarios of climate change, 2. Spatial analysisof species diversity (alpha and beta diversity), 3. Ecological niche models/speciesdistribution models and other niche analyses to assess the impacts of global change onbiodiversity, 4. Biogeographical patterns and evolutionary history in the Neotropics.Note:I use open-source tools and platforms. I am interested in good practices about open science (open databases, open software, etc.), good workflows, reproducibility and FAIR principles.

Education

PhD. in Zoology

Emílio Goeldi Museum

PA, Brazil

2017 - 2013

  • DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: Phylogeographic of disjunct bird between Amazon and Atlantic Forest

MSc. in Environmental biology

Federal University of Pará

PA, Brazil

2012 - 2010

  • MASTER THESIS: Phylogeographic analysis of Xiphorhynchus guttatus from Amazon and Atlantic Forest

Degree in biological science

Federal University of Pará

PA, Brazil

2010 - 2006

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Botanical Garden Research Institute
Supervisor: Marinez F Siqueira

RJ, Brazil

2021 - 2019

Researcher of Technological Development and Innovation

Ecoly departament
Supervisor: Mariana M Vale

UFRJ, Brazil

2019 - 2017

  • Analyzed and visualized data for CATOS fish tracking project.
  • Head of data mining project to establish temporal trends in population densities of Mysis diluviana (Mysis).
  • Ran project to mathematically model the migration patterns of Mysis (honors thesis project.)

Industry Experience

I have worked in a variety of roles ranging from journalist to software engineer to data scientist. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.




Teaching Experience

I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.

Instructor

Biology department

PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020 - 2020

  • Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
  • Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.1

Instructor

Biology department

PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
  • Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.2

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

Veiga de Almeida University

RJ, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
  • Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.3

Data Visualization Best Practices

DataCamp

RJ, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
  • Uses R and ggplot2.
  • In top 10% on platform by popularity.

Improving your visualization in Python

DataCamp

RJ, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
  • Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

Veiga de Almeida University

RJ, Brazil

2018 - 2018

  • Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
  • Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.4

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

UFRA

PA, Brazil

2018 - 2018

  • TA and lectured
  • Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
  • Highest level course offered in department

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Estácio de Sá University

RJ, Brazil

2017 - 2017

  • TA and lectured
  • Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
  • Graduate level class

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

UFRA

PA, Brazil

2017 - 2017

  • TA and lectured
  • Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
  • Highest level course offered in department

High school teacher

Dinâmica Natural

RJ, Brazil

2017 - 2015

  • TA and lectured
  • Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
  • 4th year PhD level class

Selected Data Science Writing



Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

Building a software package in tandem with machine learning methods research can result in both more rigorous code and more rigorous research

ENAR 2020

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020

  • Invited talk in Human Data Interaction section.
  • How and why building an R package can benefit methodological research

Stochastic Block Modeling in R, Statistically rigorous clustering with rigorous code5

RStudio::conf 2020

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020

  • Invited talk about new sbmR package6.
  • Focus on how software development and methodological research can improve both benefit when done in tandem.

PheWAS-ME: A web-app for interactive exploration of multimorbidity patterns in PheWAS7

Bioinformatics

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020

  • Manuscript detailing application for the exploration of multimorbidity patterns in PheWAS analyses
  • See landing page8 for more information.

Charge Reductions Associated with Shortening Time to Recovery in Septic Shock9

Chest

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • Authored with Wesley H. Self, MD MPH; Dandan Liu, PhD; Stephan Russ, MD, MPH; Michael J. Ward, MD, PhD, MBA; Nathan I. Shapiro, MD, MPH; Todd W. Rice, MD, MSc; Matthew W. Semler, MD, MSc.

Multimorbidity Explorer | A shiny app for exploring EHR and biobank data10

RStudio::conf 2019

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • Contributed Poster. Authored with Yaomin Xu.

Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns11

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

  • University wide seminar series.

Patient-specific risk factors independently influence survival in Myelodysplastic Syndromes in an unbiased review of EHR records

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019

  • Bayesian network analysis used to find novel subgroups of patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS).
  • Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

Patient specific comorbidities impact overall survival in myelofibrosis

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019

  • Bayesian network analysis used to find robust novel subgroups of patients with given genetic mutations.
  • Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

R timelineViz: Visualizing the distribution of study events in longitudinal studies

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2018 - 2018

  • Authored with Alex Sunderman of the Vanderbilt Department of Epidemiology.

Continuous Classification using Deep Neural Networks12

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2017 - 2017

  • Review of methods for classifying continuous data streams using neural networks
  • Successfully met qualifying examination standards

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

Journal of Human Immunology

RJ, Brazil

2015 - 2015

  • Authored with Richard Single, Vanja Paunic, Mark Albrecht, and Martin Maiers.

An Agent Based Model of Mysis Migration13

International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference

RJ, Brazil

2015 - 2015

  • Authored with Brian O’Malley, Sture Hansson, and Jason Stockwell.

Declines of Mysis diluviana in the Great Lakes

Journal of Great Lakes Research

RJ, Brazil

2015 - 2015

  • Authored with Peter Euclide and Jason Stockwell.

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